columbus day ???

Question

columbus day will be celibrsted in october , as it is every year . christopher columbus has been credited with discovering the new world and starting a global exchange of products,plants,peopleand ideas.one the other hand thoes that followed him, brought slaves to work the plantaions to make the europens rich so should columbus be credited for more or should he beconciderd a villan.

Answer 1

Most honest historians realize that Columbus didn't "discover" anything; he didn't even realize he'd come to a new continent, believing until his death that he had arrived at the approaches to the East Indies and China. It would, of course, be a mistake to call the Indian's arrival on the continent an act of "discovery," since by and large they were simply following migrating animals from one land mass to another. But one of the biggest and most irritating misconceptions has always been that Columbus was the first European to explore the America's, when plenty of evidence exists that the Norsemen had made inroads hundreds of years beforehand; there's even evidence that ancient Irishmen had sailed as far as the Americas even earlier.

It is also false that Columbus brought African slavery, though he did begin enslaving the Indians almost immediately. The practice was transferred to Africans following protests from others such as the Portugese explorer Bartolomeu Dias over the cruelty of enslaving Indians. (Go figure.)

Those who lament the tragic consequences of Columbus' explorations should keep in mind that efforts to probe beyond the boundaries of Europe by water were ongoing before 1492, beginning with Dias' 1487 voyage around the Horn of Africa. The trips were motivated by economic concerns, to locate alternate trading routes to China after the Muslims cut off the trans-Asiatic route started by Marco Polo. (If you want to blame anyone for the fate of the Indians, blame either Polo or the 15th Century Muslim leaders.) If there had never been a Christopher Columbus, there would have been someone else to take his place. the conquest of the West was inevitable.

Answer 2

Columbus was by no means a villain. He was a superb sailor and navigator. The way he chose to cross the Atlantic by going south then west and finally north was ingenious .
Those who chose to make Columbus the the poster boy for all the bad things[ while overlooking the good ] that followed lack the courage to place the blame where it belongs: On Christianity.
It was the Cross and Crown Coalition that allowed and encouraged the evils that were done on the native populations, not Columbus he was simply a man of his times.
Those that blame Columbus are either incredibly naive or don't seem to think that anyone knows that their arguments have little if any merit.
Slavery is not a new invention. Jewish slaves helped build the pyramids, Greek slaves helped build Roman cities and we all know that the list goes on.
It was Africans who captured and sold other Africans into slavery
So the blame needs to be spread around a little more equitably As another poster mentioned genocide and fratricide was not uncommon among Indigenous American peoples.
In the end it was simply a question of superior technology.
I have no doubt that if the roles were reversed the results would have been the same
Let the Ghost of Columbus enjoy his holiday

Answer 3

Columbus is not responsible for what people did after him. He just discovered the new continent, sort of. In fact, he didn't even know where the hell he was, he though he had gone all the way to western Asia. He didn't start any global exchanges and he didn't start any slave trading - all that was other people.

But he should be given credit for daring to go against the flat-earth people and for showing, by what was at the time a dangerous voyage, that the earth was indeed round.

Answer 4

Columbus... tHe biggest part of that day is for the kids in the "schools". They get to learn how people lived and tried to survive, and that they were nice, at least to begin with, to the Indians. I don't believe he was the "person" who discovered "the new world". I think that's the only one that we can remember.

Answer 5

Columbus is celebrated by many Americans, especially Italians-Americans, and villified by many Hispanics and Indians, citing that he brought genocide to the indigenous people of the "New World' Reality is somewhere in between. Yes, Columbus did slaughter thousands, brought pestilence and disease, and a spiteful religion, but also Columbus paved the way for people in Europe living in horrible conditions themselves to come to America for a better life. Europeans seeking religious freedom, land, a life of their own can thank him for his pioneering attitude, but those who were already living here, he was just the first of many conquistidors that ruined the thriving civilizations already in place.

Answer 6

call it in spite of you like. call it chief working Herd Day, for all it concerns. it extremely is Columbus Day, and, for some reason, i'm fairly particular that what you think of won't substitute that.

Answer 7

The Indians were, for millennia, commiting self-genocide in bloodthirsty tribal warfare. They also stole lands from one another, were not intelligent enough to develop their resources, and hogged large tracts of land for few people. They were so unfit that Manhattan Island was actually worth only $24 to them because of their transient grab-and-run lifestyle. The same goes for the Africans. So the Europeans were less evil than the mass-murdering Indian tribal gangbangers.

Answer 8

Columbus did not discover America, the Indians did, I hate that stupid Pollock!

Answer 9

I'm in favor of anyone who gives reason for a federal holiday and a paid day off!!!!!!!!!!